Two students exploring the "Creating Community Through Books" exhibition in UCSB Library.
New Library Exhibition Celebrates 20th Anniversary of UCSB Reads  UC Santa Barbara Library is celebrating the 20th anniversary of UCSB Reads, the University’s award-winning common book program, with a new exhibition, Creating Community Through Books: 20 Years of UCSB Reads. Since its launch in 2007...
Illustration made from black/white photos of several musicians
This is a slightly edited version of an article that was first published in UC Santa Barbara's The Current.  Thousands of songs representing some of the rarest and most uniquely American music borne from the Jazz Age and the Great Depression would have likely been lost to landfills and faded from...
Moderator and two panelists at KEYT event in the Library
UC Santa Barbara Library is celebrating the preservation and digitization of the KEYT Television Archive, a collection documenting more than 60 years of Santa Barbara history and community journalism. Donated to the Library in 2016, the archive includes over 2,700 videotapes and millions of feet of...
Andy Davis
The creative vision behind cinematic landmarks like The Fugitive, Under Siege, and Holes has found a permanent home at UC Santa Barbara. UCSB Library is honored to announce the acquisition of the archives of acclaimed filmmaker Andrew Davis, a major addition to its growing Film & Television...
Close-up photo of 2 pages in Saadi Shirazi’s "Book of Poetry"
The UCSB Library’s Special Research Collections recently welcomed a deeply personal and historically rich donation from Farrokh Ashti Ashtiani to the U.S. and International History, Politics, Civilization and Cultures Collection. The donation, Ashtiani’s first to UCSB Library, consists of a hand-...
Joseph Polchinski
The University of California, Santa Barbara Library recently finalized the processing and digitization of the faculty papers of renowned theoretical physicist and string theorist Joseph Polchinski (1954–2018). The papers offer scholars and enthusiasts unprecedented access to the works of one of the...
Library Award for Undergraduate Research
UCSB Library is pleased to announce the recipients of the seventh annual Library Award for Undergraduate Research (LAUR). The six awardees demonstrated deep engagement with the Library’s collections, resources, and services while producing a scholarly or creative work. First-place winners will...
Enrico Caruso Jr. as Enrico Baroni in the film La Buenaventura (1934).
The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Library's Performing Arts Collection has recently been enriched by a significant donation from Andrew Farkas, a distinguished librarian, opera scholar, and biographer. With his donation, Farkas created The Enrico Caruso Jr. Collection, which...
NBC studio photograph of Rudy Valleé.
The UC Santa Barbara Library is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a generous grant by The Ahmanson Foundation to support the preservation and accessibility of the American Radio Archives (ARA). The ARA is one of the nation’s largest collections documenting the history of radio...
Two patrons walking in Arts Library
Culminates multiyear effort to unite Library collections and services in central, state-of-the-art space This article was originally published in UCSB’s The Current.  The newly opened Sara Miller McCune Arts Library at UC Santa Barbara culminates a multiyear effort to unite library collections and...

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